Firewire connection?

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Hi folks, I have a lightscribe DVD multi writer. It's an external one and has 3 connections on the back of it. A power one, and 2 firewire ones. I was hoping to come on tonight and hook it up to my laptop, and copy some music onto lightscribe CD-R's for the first time, but realised there is no firewire socket on my laptop is there any cables, or adapters available to hook it up via USB in anyway. I've had a brief look on EBay but to no avail. I think it's a 6 pin firewire connection

 

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You can get PCMCIA to firewire adapters. Laptops often have the small IEEE 1394 interface connection you might just need a different cable.

 

There's certainly converters out there... you'll just have to search that little bit harder!

 

I just noticed I have what appears to be a small connector similar or same to the connector which appears to be on digital cameras and the PS3 controller. Is this a 4 pin firewire by any chance?

 

Wikipowwwa !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire

 

Could be - but as I can't see it I can't be sure! How about telling us the make and model of your laptop? Or looking in the docs?

Harry.